Some of the vinyl records I've converted.
During the 2005 Holiday Season I started to convert some of my vinyl Christmas albums to digital format. By that time we were listening mostly to CDs and I thought it would be nice to listen to that Christmas music in the car or on my iPod. Besides, some of the records had had a hard life and were getting pretty scratched up.
Since I have a Mac, it was a simple manner to connect the turntable and amplifier to my computer. I got a program, Sound Studio, to allow me to edit the sound files and I was in business. In addition to creating the sound files, Sound Studio allows me edit the files and remove many of the skips and scratches.
When I started this project I didn’t realize how long it would take. While I was still working I didn’t have a great deal of time, but even after retiring I still had plenty of things to do in addition to my conversion project. I worked on Christmas music when I had the time for about six months out of the year.
I must admit that there were times when I thought I would never get done, but Thursday evening I finished converting the last of my records. I’ve converted a total of 55 records to CDs.
I feel like I’ve earned myself a rest, but we have many more records that need to converted. What should I work on next — Henry Mancini, Glenn Miller or Arthur Fiedler?
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